So some of the ways on the road to socialism we deal with media is to increase focus on good journalism and cut news that can be bought and controlled by a very small group or one person. Such power over society cannot be available to a few people for democracy to function. Media can be owned by the workers that work there. With workplace democracy. We might want some publicly owned media like here in Norway, especially to found and facilitate for coverage of wars, more expensive and dangerous coverage but of course as much information as possible needs to be available for the public and the news including where pretty much all money and power goes in society, because if the people don’t understand how power goes around then how will they decide on where to put it? And the key point is we need no media that is not under the scrutiny of democracy. Whether it is because it’s everybody who owns it or the people that actually work at said media originations.
For democracy, for a society where the people rule, then we can’t have the news largely dictated by capital interests, by the already powerful. The media as one of the biggest pillars of power in society so that the people can be informed, for the people to be informed you also need good education systems. And to have this then you can’t have these systems be dictated by greed, by the already powerful. So corporate media, news that are bought and sold, and can be dictated by the rich we can’t have, one way to reduce this is to remove the rich, we don’t need such massive power differences so that a small group of people of a single person can control and scup up massive amounts of media power.
Sort: Trending
[-]
terraboost (2) 22 days ago